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A SPECIAL TRUSTEE TAKES ON COMPTON COLLEGE’S SAME OLD PROBLEM
Genethia Hudley-Hayes has been appointed special trustee to the Compton Community College District (CCCD), replacing Peter Landsberger, who is retiring after more than four years in the post. Hudley-Hayes arrives as a former president of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education and the used-to-be executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and [...]
VIOLENT CRIME IS DOWN IN COMPTON, ACCORDING TO LA SHERIFF’S REPORT
Violent crimes in Compton have dropped dramatically from a year ago, according to a report detailing crime statistics for the unincorporated communities and 42 contract cities policed by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Most notable were decreases in homicides in the Compton Station area, which includes Compton and nearby unincorporated areas, and Century Station [...]
SHE’S BAAAACCKK!! CERVANTES RETURNS TO COMPTON COUNCIL, MAD AS EVER
The Compton College board member asserts she did nothing wrong in soliciting a would-be arsonist to strike the Compton Bulletin again. “I’m tired of being lied on. Retards, even the retards know that it was an electrical fire. So we know that nobody set that fire,” Cervantes said. “That was just a figure of speech referring to what they (the paper) deserved.”
INITIATIVE REQUIRING VOTER APPROVAL OF COMPTON POLICE DEPARTMENT FINALLY MOVES FORWARD
Almost three months after Compton’s former city clerk, Charles Davis, began trying to place an initiative on the local ballot that would require voter approval to relaunch a local police department, he finally received a response from the city attorney. Davis told the Compton Bulletin that City Attorney Craig Cornwell rejected the first several written requests Davis submitted by Davis because the [...]
MANY COMPTON RESIDENTS SAY THEY FEEL SAFER UNDER SHERIFF’S DEPT
Carolyn Blake said she and her adult children ride their bikes down her street at ease, free of fear. Ten years ago when the Compton Police Department policed the streets, she said, that simply wasn’t possible. “Before, we could go nowhere,” said Blake, who’s called Compton home since 1958. “We’ve come too far to turn back.
RESTORATION OF COMPTON CREEK PARCEL BEGINS
Plans are finally underway to restore the soft-bottomed section of Compton Creek, the local tributary adjacent to the casino and the new shopping center. The Environmental Protection Agency and Los Angeles County has announced acquisition of the four-acre parcel of land surrounding the creek. The roughly 8.5-mile creek is part of the 42.1-square-mile Compton Creek [...]
MORE QUESTIONS SURROUND PROBE OF MISSING DRUGS AT COMPTON PD
Former Compton detective Arnold Villaruel, who remained under investigation after an internal probe in 1999 revealed that drugs were missing from the former police department’s vault, was never charged with a crime. While much of the evidence, though circumstantial, detailed within the 95-page internal investigation points to Villarruel’s involvement, The Compton Bulletin has been unable to determine what, [...]
1999 REPORT DETAILS CORRUPTION IN COMPTON PD NARCOTICS UNIT
A Compton Police Department internal affairs investigation report from 1999—just obtained by The Compton Bulletin—reveals that corruption within the department’s narcotics unit was identified in the months leading up to its eventual demise. The nearly 100-page report details an investigation that was launched shortly after Chief Hourie Taylor and Capt. Percy Perrodin were placed on [...]
EX-COMPTON MAYOR BRADLEY RETURNS—TO OPPOSE RETURN OF POLICE DEPT
Former Compton Mayor Omar Bradley made his first public appearance in years last Saturday during a town hall meeting at the Compton Center hosted by opponents of a plan to re-establish the Compton Police Department. Bradley cast one of the deciding votes in 1999, when the city council shut down the department, which was mired [...]
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SUMMERTIME: IT'S ENOUGH TO MAKE SOME KIDS LOSE THEIR LUNCH
Most children jump for joy when the final bell rings on the last day of school. For them, summer means freedom. It means camp, vacation and popsicles. But summer also means hunger and stagnation for too many American children. Schools begin letting out over the next week, and many children are facing a summer of [...]
AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND LATINO WORSHIPPERS FIND NEW LIFE TOGETHER IN A CHANGING NEIGHBHORHOOD
The Black choir clapped and swayed, propelled by the organ’s groove and drums’ beat, as gospel music filled the tiny New Life in Christ Church on Compton Avenue. The rhythm came naturally, but when it was time to sing, the choir had to turn to sheet music to keep from stumbling over the Spanish lyrics. [...]
COMPTON COUNCIL SILENTLY HANDS ANOTHER BIG, NO-BID CONTRACT TO MAYOR PERRODIN’S BROTHER
Without so much as a word of public discussion, the Compton City Council has reversed its vote of a year ago and approved a $95,000 no-bid management and consulting contract with the brother of Mayor Eric J. Perrodin. The extension of the City’s existing contract with Percy Perrodin, Jr.’s, company—called Joseph and Paul, Inc.—was included [...]
COMPTON SUPERINTENDENT CHARGED PERSONAL ITEMS TO DISTRICT CREDIT CARD
Credit card records obtained by The Compton Bulletin reveal that the superintendent of the Compton Unified School District appears to have been using taxpayer money for personal purchases. Records provided by the school district indicate that only some of the purchases made by Superintendent Dr. Kaye Burnside on a district-issued credit card have been repaid. [...]
GATEWAY TOWNE CENTER—COMPTON’S NEWEST—USES TAX-CREDIT MECHANISM TO NARROWLY AVOID FORECLOSURE
Compton’s new shopping center, the Gateway Towne Center, narrowly avoided forclosure after it was able to secure $29 million in permanent financing through a new tax-credit mechanism. Community Development Financial Institutions Clearinghouse officials said this recent loan saved the shopping center, which would have gone into foreclosure had the permanent financing not been secured. City [...]
COUNTY CLERK HAS NO RECORD THAT COMPTON RDA EVER FILED MANDATED STUDY OF $100 MILLION BOND ISSUE
The City of Compton Redevelopment Agency claims to have filed with the Los Angeles County clerk for public review of a study on the agency’s proposed issuance of $100 million in bonds, but The Bulletin has learned that county clerk’s office has no record of it. READ MORE
OWNER OF FORMER COMPTON POT SHOP GETS 6 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON
A man who ran half a dozen medical marijuana dispensaries in the greater Los Angeles area, including one in Compton, has been sentenced to six years in federal prison. In a March 22 sentencing, U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson said that Virgil Edward Grant III used his licensed clinics to earn a profit selling [...]
COMPTON SPENDING $5 MILLION TO BUY BACK PARKS IT SOLD TO RDA
COMPTON—In what some consider a fishy move, the City of Compton is spending more than $5 million to supposedly buy back city parks from the redevelopment agency. The City Council acting as the Urban Community Redevelopment Agency last Tuesday, March 16, approved a $5.2 million payout from the city to the Community Redevelopment Agency to [...]
THE LESS-THAN-MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
COMPTON–Seven local schools have been named to a state list of public school campuses that consistently have the lowest test scores in California. An updated list released Thursday, March 11, features the lowest-performing 5 percent of schools statewide. The local schools on that list are Davis Middle, Dominguez High, Martin Luther King Elementary, Vanguard Learning [...]
